A leading Catholic bishop in Britain has criticised the direction the Vatican
took under the leadership of Pope Benedict XVI.

The Right Rev Kieran Conry, Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, said he had
over-centralised the Catholic Church and led it away from some of the
reforming ideals of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.

Bishop Conry specifically highlighted the recent new Mass translation as an
initiative from Rome that had had a negative impact on many Catholics in the
pews.

The comments came as the Catholic bishops of England and Wales came to terms
with the fact that they